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“Hail to the Dictator and Motherland!”

The United Soviet Republic of Ajax Prime is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Aleksandr Mikhailovich with an iron fist, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.809 billion are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and the Environment. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mount Redwater. The average income tax rate is 80%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry.

Public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people", the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth, Ajax Prime has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, and military funding has been stripped back. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Ajax Prime's national animal is the African Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Eastern Orthodox, and its currency is the Euro.

Ajax Prime is ranked 4th in the region and 13,460th in the world for Most Godforsaken.